Denis Philippe

Activities

Within the bar

• Expert belge pour le droit européen des contrats du CCBE

Outside the bar

• Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and at ICHEC
• Lecturer at the University of Paris X Nanterre
• Guest professor at the Free University of Brussels (V.U.B.) (Arbitration law)
• Member of the jury for the thesis defense of Mr. Dave Mertens “Free and effective medicine and protection of the consequences of outside (intellectual) economic law” at the University of Antwerp (4 October 2010)
• Editor-in-Chief of the Business Law Review (DAOR)
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Liège, Mons, Brussels Jurisprudence Review (responsible for the Civil Liability column)
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Handeslcontract series of the Larcier Group
• Member of the Editorial Board of the General Review of Civil Law (Contracts and Obligations)
• Member of the scientific committee of Businesslawtele.net
• 2000–to date: Partner, “Philippe & Partners”, member of the Brussels Bar and the Luxembourg Bar
• 1999–2000: Partner, “Simonet, Kelder, Philippe, Domont, Lories, Mertens”, Brussels
• 1984–1999: Partner, “Balon, Buyle, Maingain & Philippe, Brussels
• 1977–1984: Lawyer at the Brussels Bar, collaborator of Professor R.O. DALCQ (Janson Baugniet association)
• Member of the board of the Institute of European Law
• Member of the French group “Transeurope Experts”
• Participation as a lawyer in the “Forum on specifications for sustainable food for communities” (Bioforum – Gembloux) – March 9 2009
• Member of the coordination committee of the von Bar Commission on the standardization of contract law, a commission comprising university professors from different countries of the European Union and a commission whose work is financed by the European Union. Participation in the seminar in Warsaw on May 19, 2004, in Milan in December 2004, in Berlin in June 2005 and Tartu (Estonia) in December 2005, in Luzern December 2006; in Prague December 2007
• Since 1960, he has provided assistance to Central European countries in the transposition of directives (all Central European countries, management of a team of lawyers and university professors between 1999 and 2000 in Slovakia).
• Member of the International Contracts group led by Professors Fontaine and de Ly
• Director of the Belgian Nuclear Association
• Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company Huyghebaert (since 2002)
• 2001–2002: Director of the company Vandemoortele (Kortrijk)
• Member of the examination committee of the Institute of Company Auditors